me216
May 31, 2021, 8:59am
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Dear Kobo users and devs,
Wishing you well. Please note that my colleagues might use Kobo for data collection. As a developer, I am thinking to write a script (nodeJS / Python) for the purpose of capturing data and inserting it into our database. How can I achieve that?
Best wishes,
Welcome to the community, @me216 ! Maybe this post discussed previously should help you with how a script is written in python:
@sareep , a while back have created a method for converting XLS data into XML with a Python script so that they can be submitted via the API. This requires an existing deployed form to be in your account.
Everything is documented in this repository: https://github.com/kobotoolbox/xls-import . I hope this works for you.
Another one:
Hi @locust , that is concerning. Would you mind please sharing the following with me in a private message so that I can take a look:
Server (OCHA/HHI)
Username
Project name
In the meantime, you can do the following to meet your original need of pulling data based on specific criteria. Let’s assume you have a question called country and you also want to limit the _submission_time property to submissions after a certain date.
In a terminal (or with a REST client), you can do the following:
cur…
And this one too:
Hi @djole ,
Lets assume you have some projects already created and are wanting to create users and give them permissions to particular projects. You could create a spreadsheet with the following structure for creating new users (let’s call it users.csv):
username
first_name
last_name
email
johndoe
John
Doe
johndoe@gmail.com
…
…
…
…
And a second sheet with your projects and permissions for each user (let’s call it permissions.csv):
username
project_uid
permission
johndoe
qW…
wroos
May 31, 2021, 10:13am
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Hello,
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me216
May 31, 2021, 1:46pm
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I want to collect the Kobo data so that I insert them into my database.
